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Real People Who Have Equations (and Other Important Things) Named After Them

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Page 1: Real People Who Have Equations (and Other Important Things) Named After Them

Real People Who Have Equations (and Other Important Things)

Named After Them

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Rudolf Clausius (1822- 1888, German) &

Benoît Clapeyron (1799-1864, French)

Clausius-Clapeyron Equation

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Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662, French)

Pressure unit (Pa)

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Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782, Dutch-Swiss)

Bernoulli Equation

Page 5: Real People Who Have Equations (and Other Important Things) Named After Them

Francois-Marie Raoult (1830 – 1901, French)

Raoult’s Law

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William Henry (1775-1836, English)

Henry’s Law

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Frederick Trouton (1863 – 1922, Irish)

Trouton’s Rule

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Germain Hess (1802-1850, Russian)

Hess’s Law

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Hermann Kopp (1817-1892, German)

Kopp’s Rule

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Isaac Newton (1643-1727, English)

Laws of Motion, Calculus, Newton’s Method

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James Joule (1818-1889, English)

First Law of Thermodynamics

(and unit of energy, joules)

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Lord Kelvin (1824 – 1907, English)

Kelvin scale of temperature measurement

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James Watt (1736-1819, Scottish)

Developed steam engine, SI unit of power (watts)

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Johannes van der Waals (1837 – 1923, Dutch)

Van der Waals equation of state

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Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1914, American)

Gibbs phase rule

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Richard Felder (1939 – present, American) & Ron Rousseau (1944 – present, American)

Authors of the top selling introductory chemical engineering textbook in the United States

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